{"id":3141,"date":"2024-11-26T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2024-11-25T21:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T05:52:06","slug":"texas-lawmakers-push-for-new-exceptions-to-states-strict-abortion-ban-after-the-deaths-of-two-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/texas-lawmakers-push-for-new-exceptions-to-states-strict-abortion-ban-after-the-deaths-of-two-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

But more than 100 Texas OB-GYNs disagree with his position. In a public letter<\/a>, written in response to ProPublica\u2019s reporting, they urged changes. \u201cAs OB-GYNs in Texas, we know firsthand how much these laws restrict our ability to provide our patients with quality, evidence-based care,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Texas\u2019 abortion ban threatens up to 99 years in prison, $100,000 in fines and loss of medical license for doctors who provide abortions. The state\u2019s health and safety code currently includes exceptions if a pregnant woman \u201chas a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places the female at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless the abortion is performed or induced.\u201d A separate exception exists that provides doctors with some legal protections if they perform an abortion for an ectopic pregnancy or in cases when a patient\u2019s water breaks.<\/p>\n

Read more at ProPublica<\/a><\/p>\n

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But more than 100 Texas OB-GYNs disagree with his position. In a public letter, written in response to ProPublica\u2019s reporting, they urged changes. \u201cAs OB-GYNs in Texas, we know firsthand how much these laws restrict our ability to provide our patients with quality, evidence-based care,\u201d they said. Texas\u2019 abortion ban threatens up to 99 years … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,172,241,125,450,352,200,10],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-6-week-bans","tag-abortion-bans","tag-bounty-law","tag-doctor-liability","tag-maternal-mortality","tag-miscarriage-management","tag-ob-gyn","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}